Leading up to the song, Jesus has offered uplifting spiritual messages in the Beatitudes. Then Judas darkens the mood with a line from Matthew 5:11 that presages traumatic times to come: Blessed are you, when all men shall revile you and persecute you…. Schwartz comments, "It is too soon for the other disciples to know this, so Jesus lightens the mood again and distracts them with his soft-shoe routine."
